‘Fatal Attraction’ cast boiled real bunny in 1987 kitchen scene

Glenn Close's "Fatal Attraction" character was even more unhinged than we thought.

Director Adrian Lyne revealed that the cast of the 1987 movie used a dead bunny from the butcher in Anne Archer's infamous scene.

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"We tried to take its innards out to make it real," Lyne said in "Leading Lady," a biography about former Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing, acquired by the Hollywood Reporter.

"But then it didn't have any heft. It was just like a little bit of skin. So we had to boil it with all of its innards, and the stench was beyond belief. That probably helped Anne because the smell was so bad."

Co-star Michael Douglas also revealed in "Leading Lady," written by Stephen Galloway, that Close's casting was a controversial move on set.

Michael Douglas also revealed the directors worried that Close wasn't sexy enough for the role. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

Barbara Hershey, Isabelle Adjani, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange and Melanie Griffith were already out for various reasons before agent Fred Specktor suggested Close, who was at that point best known for her role in "The World According to Garp."

"There was a debate about her sexiness. They gave me the most beautiful wife (Anne Archer) you could imagine, and the whole thing was, how could you leave this gorgeous woman for Glenn Close?" Douglas said.

"She just knocked it out of the park. She already had the Medusa hair. It was a Glenn you'd never seen before."